Re: Java installing

[Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@panthera-systems.net>]

Mark Crean wrote:
> All I've done is "sudo apt-get install java-package" which enables you
> to build a deb for a java jre using a file downloaded from the issuer.
> Then I downloaded the latest jre .bin file from Sun and ran "make-jpg"
> against it which produced "sun-j2re1.5_1.5.0+update05_i386.deb". I
> installed this with "sudo dpkg -i packaname.deb". Everything works OK
> here and ./java -version yields

Or one can use the premade binary-packages at debian-unofficial.org:

deb http://ftp.debian-unofficial.org/debian sarge main contrib non-free

apt-get update
apt-get install sun-j2se5.0-jre

or

apt-get install sun-j2se5.0-jdk

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